The Secret Power of Comments

But not too secret I hope. Comments are the lifeblood of many bloggers, myself included. I know it is hard to write, so when someone leaves a comment it means a lot to me. My blogs are all set up to forward comments automatically to my e-mail, which sorts them into a comment folder. I read the new ones every day. On days when i don't feel like writing I go to that folder and look back on them. Knowing that people make the effort to write something back, even occassionally, has never failed to get me writing.

So on a 'mission' for my Blogshares game today I came across this blog. I think there is an elegance in the poetry there. If this blog gets healthy it will head up the 'poetry' section of my soon to be created link list. You may be saying 'what? gets healthy? what does that mean?'. This blog is a beautiful creature in failing health. The writer hasn't posted in a month, after being fairly regular for a long time. No comments. No evidence of readers. Not much to keep the spirit from flagging. I hope the writer will start visiting here and ask questions about how to market her blog to readers, and we can have her poetry displayed on a robust, healthy blog.

Go there. Comment on what you like.